I cut my teeth in the '70s on a state-of-the-art 36-bit mainframe computer called Multics. It used 9-bit bytes, and was the first OS to be implemented using a high-level language, PL/1, and was the first implementation of Dynamic Paging, Segmentation, and Virtual Memory. UNIX and other modern-day Operating Systems are based on Multics.
The kicker is that Multics was written in the late 1960s!
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